Concept of Situational Management of Safety Critical Infrastructure of State (original) (raw)

Situational Management Of Critical Infrastructure Resources Under Threat

Foundations of Management, 2015

This article presents a synthesis of knowledge about safety management procedures for critical infrastructure in the context of risk management theory and the provisions of the Polish law on emergency management launched on of April 26, 2007. In this paper, the inadequacy of the accepted procedures at present is highlighted, as well as their continuous improvement and adaptation to prevailing political, legal, social, and economic conditions. This paper proposes using the concept of situational management and knowledge management to develop a new method of predicting, preventing, and responding to emerging crises within critical infrastructure. The considerations presented in this paper lead to a proposed concept system supporting critical infrastructure safety management through the implementation of knowledge management methods.

Regional Security: Analysis of the Emergency Management Effectiveness Based on the Scenario Approach

Advances in systems science and applications, 2017

The paper analyses the effectiveness of the scenario analysis and modeling methods for solving the planning and operational control problems of in the processes of prevention and elimination of the causes and effects of man-made disasters, industrial catastrophes and emergencies. The scenario approach belongs to a class of object-oriented methods used to represent information about the state of a plant and an environment, which is necessary to generate control actions for the rescue measures and activities, as well as disaster management. The main feature discussed in this paper is a class of industrial safety management tasks based on the scenario approach which have to be developed as well as the general normative framework that allows to fundamentally change the approach to building models of an emergency. The research shows that in this case the procedure of forming the base model using a comprehensive analysis of existing technical regulations, norms and standards were quite effective. The results of modeling and scenario analysis of the processes, elimination of technological accidents consequences on transport infrastructure of metropolises are presented in the paper.

Three Units of Analysis for Crisis Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Society's welfare is very dependent on the effective performance of Critical Infrastructure (CI). Nowadays, CI constitutes a network of interconnected and interdependent entities. This means that a serious event in one CI can originate cascading events in the rest, leading to a serious crisis. As a consequence, Crisis Management (CM) and Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) should converge and integrate their findings, providing a more unified approach. One relevant issue when developing integrated CM/CIP research is what type of unit of analysis should be used, as it conditions the research objectives and questions. This paper presents an analysis of three different units of analysis used in CM research, focusing on the research objectives and questions used in them. These three different units of analysis have been used in a European CIP research project where three simulation models have been developed based on these three units of analysis.

Dynamic Hazards In Critical Infrastructure Of State

Foundations of Management, 2015

The authors are interested in some aspects of a development project entitled “The methodology of risk assessment for the purposes of crisis management system RP (ID 193751)”. The project funded by the National Research and Development Centre under the Competition 3/2012 (security and defense). As part of the project the following items were reviewed and analyzed: materials related to the Government Security Centre, already completed and available products of the project ID 193751, and literature relating to, among other things, crisis management, critical infrastructure, business continuity, security, and threats. The basic emphasis of the article is focused on the resource-critical infrastructure interpretation of the state, whereby the state is perceived as a complex administrative structure in which, on the basis of external and internal interactions of resources, the risk of threats measurement is done.

INTEGRATED MODEL OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION RISK MATRIX ˝BRČKO DISTRICT BIH

Journal of Security and Safety, 2023

Under EU Council Directive 2008/114 for the protection of critical infrastructure (CI), in Brčko in the District of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BD BiH) in 2018, the "Integrated Model" was established protection of CI" in three phases: 1. Phase-preparation of preventive documentation, 2. Phasedimplementation of technical systems of monitoring and early warning and Phase 3strengthening response capacity. The 1st phase includes the creation of a threat assessment and protection and rescue plans. They are identified as natural, technical-technological, and anthropogenic risks, which have an impact on people, property, environment, critical infrastructure (CI), and public and cultural facilities. Risk matrices were created, which analyzed the probabilities and impacts on people, economy/environment, and social/political community, and priorities and measures for their protection have been determined. Representative risks are defined that threaten CIs and modeled as the most likely and worst possible scenarios and impacts in the event her interruptions. The action plan provides measures and technical solutions for the establishment of an efficient protection and rescue system. By implementing a monitoring and early warning system all technical risk monitoring systems are integrated at CI (sensor monitoring system for natural disasters, early warning and evacuation system, access control system, system video surveillance, fire and gas detection, and alarm system, active extinguishing system, georeferenced information system (GIS), IT protection system, intelligent management model objects (BIM), etc. They are connected to each other through the reporting operation center (DOC). into a model of integrated management and supervision in the wider space and facilities of the CI, which can be used for later maintenance of all protection and rescue systems. 3. The phase has established a system of response services that can effectively respond to crises and plans to strengthen its capacity. Working procedures and control over the correctness of the system in case of threats to CI. A system of training, skill development, and verification through annual examinations is also being established in field exercises. The integrated protection model established in this way represents the most effective way of risk management on critical infrastructure.

Opportunity and Utility in Applying Scenarios Method in the Critical Infrastructures Protection Field

Scientific Bulletin, 2015

Critical infrastructures protection research field is booming today because of the practical aspects and sometimes by taking in consideration its imminence character which should be addressed to it. The complexity of this domain originates from critical infrastructures architectures, dominated by the local or regional interdependencies and by the necessity feature of ensuring proper functionality, all in a framework of analysis characterized by unprecedented diversification of physical and / or virtual threats. In this context, this article analyzes (theoretical and based on a practical study) the possibility of using scenarios as a high form of contextual representation method.

Risk Management in Critical Infrastructure—Foundation for Its Sustainable Work

Sustainability, 2016

The paper concerns research related to the European project CIRAS and presents a validation experiment with the use of a risk management tool adapted for critical infrastructures. The project context and state of the art are discussed. The adaptation of the risk management tool is performed according to previously elaborated requirements which consider interdependencies, cause-consequences analysis, risk measures and risk register implementation. A novel structured risk management method was proposed how to deal with internal and external impacts of a hazardous event which occurred in the given CI. The method is embedded into the critical infrastructure resilience process. These requirements can be implemented on the ready-to-use software platform for further experiments. The experimentation results are used as the input for CIRAS. The discussed tool can be applied as the risk reduction component in the CIRAS Tool, and the validation process presented here is the basis to elaborate two project use cases.

Some Problems of Critical Infrastructure Protection in Republic of Poland

2013

The paper presents the structure, tasks and competencies of the Polish government and the authorities responsible for security in crisis management system. On examples, the "National Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection" and the "National Crisis Management Plan" presents a system of mutual cooperation, exchange of information and coordination of ongoing projects.

Critical infrastructures risk management: case study

Theoretical and Applied Informatics

The paper concerns a risk assessment and management methodology in critical infrastructures. The aim of the paper is to present researches on risk management within the experimentation tool based on the OSCAD software. The researches are focused on interdependent infrastructures where the specic phenomena, like escalating and cascading eects, may occur. The objective of the researches is to acquire knowledge about risk issues within interdependent infrastructures, to assess the usefulness of the OSCAD-based risk manager in this application domain, and to identify directions for further R&D works. The paper contains a short introduction to risk management in critical infrastructures, presents the state of the art, and the context, plan and scenarios of the performed validation experiments. Next, step by step, the validation is performed. It encompasses two collaborating infrastructures (railway, energy). It is shown how a hazardous event impacts the given infrastructure (primary and secondary eects) and the neighbouring infrastructure. In the conclusions the experiments are summarized, the OSCAD software assessed and directions of the future works identied.